It’s a little strange, too, because the documentary film is based on our staff — the full-time journalists and part-time freelancers covering marijuana at The Denver Post and The Cannabist.

After we first wrote about “Rolling Papers,” many of you asked us to let you know when it comes out. And while its release date is in the somewhat distant future, we can share with you the first footage the independent documentary team has released of the film.

Ricardo Baca is the founder and editor of The Cannabist, legal marijuana's paper of record and a division of The Denver Post. Fortune magazine ranked Baca as one of the seven most powerful people in American cannabis while the Brookings Institution...